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Article: http://list.or.kr/node/950
Journal: list_Books from Korea
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Language: English(English)
Country: SOUTH KOREA
City: Seoul
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Writer: Yi Mun-yol , Kim Juyeong , Kim Hoon , Kim Taekhwan

About the Author

Yi Mun-yol
Birth : 1948 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Mun-yol
Family Name : Yi
Korean Name : 이문열
ISNI : 0000000081755894
Works : 91

Kim Juyeong
Birth : 1939 ~ -
Occupation : Writer
First Name : Juyeong
Family Name : Kim
Korean Name : 김주영
ISNI : -
Works : 24

Kim Hoon
Birth : 1948 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Hoon
Family Name : Kim
Korean Name : 김훈
ISNI : 0000000081223011
Works : 16

Kim Taekhwan
Birth : - ~ -
Occupation : -
First Name : -
Family Name : -
Korean Name : 김택환
ISNI : -
Works : 0

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History & Memory: What History Has Forgotten, Novels Have Remembered By Cho Yeon-jung on Nov 09 2014 07:32:53 Special Edition 2011 What happens at the meeting of history and the novel? In the sense that both depend on memory and imagination to varying degrees, they tell the same story: a fiction. Memory and imagination play an important role as subjects and tools in historiography and writing novels. In formal historiography, fragments of memories are gathered together to become a collective memory. Putting together personal, fleeting memories to create a plausible story requires the judgment of a historian, but also imagination and ideology. Novels rely more on personal rather than collective memory. In this sense, perhaps the origins of fiction are forgotten stories; stories that have faded from the collective memory have a chance to be retold as personal remembrances, thanks to novels. Regardless of whether novels contain collective or personal memories, the moment these are recorded on paper, they become a fiction that can no longer be recreated by recollection alone. Novel writing is such a task. Therefore novels try to recreate the things that history—even time—has forgotten, by trying to recall these memories through the act of writing. It is an impossible and repetitive task. At a fundamental level, novels strive not to forget such things as personal, fleeting, and sensory memories. The key point is that history has forgotten the memories known as novels, while novels recollect what history has relegated to oblivion.

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